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Time and Eternity / Brian Leftow.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of ReligionPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501731884
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 212/.7 20
LOC classification:
  • BT153.I47 L43 1991
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some Working Assumptions -- 3. The Possibility of the Timeless -- 4. The Logic of Eternity -- 5. Augustine: Eternality as Truest Existence -- 6. Boethius: Eternity as Duration -- 7. The Roots of Eternity -- 8. Boethius: Foreknowledge, Eternity, and Simultaneity -- 9. Anselm: Eternity and Dimensionality -- 10. A Theory of Time and Eternity -- 11. Timelessness, Freedom, and Foreknowledge -- 12. A Case for God's Timelessness -- 13. Timelessness and Personhood -- 14. Time, Actuality, and Omniscience -- 15. Omniscience, Change, and Epistemic Indexicals -- 16. Timelessness and Religious Experience -- 17. Vale et Salve -- References -- Index
Summary: Brian Leftow makes an important contribution to the longstanding debate among philosophers and theologians about the nature of God's eternity. The author develops a powerful and original defense of the notion that God is eternal in that he exists timelessly; that is, that though God exists, he does not exist at any time. Leftow defends the claim that a timeless God can be an object of human experience, and he attempts to delineate the extent of such a God's omniscience. Finally, the author pays special attention to the relation between the claim that God is timeless and the claim that God is metaphysically simple.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some Working Assumptions -- 3. The Possibility of the Timeless -- 4. The Logic of Eternity -- 5. Augustine: Eternality as Truest Existence -- 6. Boethius: Eternity as Duration -- 7. The Roots of Eternity -- 8. Boethius: Foreknowledge, Eternity, and Simultaneity -- 9. Anselm: Eternity and Dimensionality -- 10. A Theory of Time and Eternity -- 11. Timelessness, Freedom, and Foreknowledge -- 12. A Case for God's Timelessness -- 13. Timelessness and Personhood -- 14. Time, Actuality, and Omniscience -- 15. Omniscience, Change, and Epistemic Indexicals -- 16. Timelessness and Religious Experience -- 17. Vale et Salve -- References -- Index

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Brian Leftow makes an important contribution to the longstanding debate among philosophers and theologians about the nature of God's eternity. The author develops a powerful and original defense of the notion that God is eternal in that he exists timelessly; that is, that though God exists, he does not exist at any time. Leftow defends the claim that a timeless God can be an object of human experience, and he attempts to delineate the extent of such a God's omniscience. Finally, the author pays special attention to the relation between the claim that God is timeless and the claim that God is metaphysically simple.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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